Welcome back to Moved with Lauren Elizabeth. I'm Lauren Elizabeth. And today we are going to be having the current mood combo all about friendship. It's something we totally have not dived into yet.

And it feels per usual always has to do with something that's kind of on my mind, something I'm going through personally. And I've just had so many thoughts about friendship over the past few weeks.

And I realized that we've never talked about it. And I do get some emails from you guys about it. So I'm also going to answer some that relate to the current mood combo in our send moods section.

If you guys ever want advice, all you have to do is email mood with Lauren Elizabeth at gmail.com. And I pick like two at least once a month when I do a solo episode. And I give you guys some unsolicited advice.

Also, before we jump into, I wanted to let you guys know that I am back on track with the at mood with Lauren Elizabeth Instagram account. I just love finding inspirational quotes. I love taking quotes from this podcast. And I just figured it would be another good little hub of mood boosting content for you guys. I know it's so easy to kind of go on social media and feel really, really bad. So I figured this would be a really good follow for you guys to just give you a little bit of positivity on your feet as well.

And also it just brings us together closer as a community. So I have been posting more regularly ever since my last episode and you guys are really loving it so far. I love seeing you guys tag me and at mood with Lauren Elizabeth in your stories. So it's like a beautiful double whammy. And also if you didn't know, I know a lot of podcasts have a private Facebook groups.

And I actually have always had a private Facebook group. So if you're just kind of an OG podcast listener and maybe not necessarily familiar with all my other stuff, I actually do have a Facebook group. And it's really great. We have over 14,000 members. It's private. It's girls only. And it's just a place where everyone really shares advice tips and tricks.

It could be anything from like female advice, dating advice, school advice, friend advice, like anything like that. And then all the way to like fashion beauty, Brazilian waxes, curling irons, hoodies, like everything we all know and love. So since we are on the topic of friendship, I know a lot of girls make friends through the group. I've been doing a better job monitoring it as well, just because it did grow over quarantine. It was pop it. And we had to reel it in a little bit. But it is an amazing group. So many girls love it. I will put it on the mood with Lauren Elizabeth stories for you guys.

So we can get some little moody's in that group as well. Okay, now we can jump into best mood and worst mood of the week. Sorry, I always forget to do that kind of stuff at the beginning of an episode. And then I look at my iPad after and I'm like crap. I forgot to tell them to follow the Instagram and do all the boring stuff.

But it's not boring because then you have more mood content. And who doesn't want that? Oh, and I also just wanted to say really quick. Sorry, it's a solo episode. You're gonna have to deal with me on this one.

I literally did this podcast in my sleep last night. So if I sound like a little out of sorts or something, it's because I woke up at like 3.30 in the morning,

could not fall back asleep and finally just started working at 5 a.m. And I do not do that. Like I just I don't and not glorifying it.

I'm like, why did I decide to get like a week's worth of work done in one day? But I literally, I don't know if anyone has stress

dreams like this. I recorded this entire podcast into my sleep. Like I was like half awake, like practicing doing this podcast. So bizarre. Anyway, I've clearly had my best mood pre-planned for a little bit, even in my sleep.

And it was gonna be a mood booster just because it was genuinely something that boosted my mood so much. But then I realized it was so big, it might as well be the best mood.

And that mood is feeling vulnerable, vulnerability. It's something we're gonna talk about with friendships as well. But it definitely has been something with my friendships in the past week, especially.

I just found myself really just kind of being like, screw it. I want to be vulnerable with my girlfriends. I feel like it's like that thing of, you know, like always quote unquote, check on your strong friend.

I just felt like I need to check on my friends more and I wanted to be checked on as well. And I always believe that friendships are two way street.

So it was kind of this like combination of just saying like, hey, how are you? And then when someone would ask me how I am just like being really open and vulnerable.

And really having these real vulnerable conversations and leaning on my friends instead of just being the one that gives advice.

I actually finally kind of just like let my guard down and was like, this is how I'm really feeling. And instead of it making me feel weak or silly, like it actually built me back up.

It was one so nice to just get these feelings off my chest to like appear like a girlfriend and not just like my mom or my therapist.

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